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Colin Meloy

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This is Colin Meloy, lead singer of The Decemberists. I don't know if it really looks like him, but I liked the drawing, so why not post it? Eh?

Anyway, listen to The Decemberists.

-gel pen
-ballpoint
-recycled paper

Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then)
Heart-carved tree trunk, Yankee bayonet
A sweetheart left behind
Far from the hills of the sea-swelled Carolinas
That's where my true love lies

Look for me when the sun-bright swallow
Sings upon the birch bough high
But you are in the ground with the wolves and the weevils
All a'chew upon your bones so dry

But when the sun breaks
To no more bullets in Battlecreek
Then will you make a grave
For I will be home then
I will be home then
I will be home then
I will be home then
Then

When I was a girl how the hills of Oconee
Made a seam to hem me in
There at the fair when our eyes caught, careless
Got my heart right pierced by a pin

But oh, did you see all the dead of Manassas
All the bellies and the bones and the bile
Though I lingered here with the blankets barren
And my own belly big with child

But when the sun breaks
To no more bullets in Battlecreek
Then will you make a grave
For I will be home then
I will be home then
I will be home then
I will be home then

Stems and bones and stone walls too
Could keep me from you
Skein of skin is all too few
To keep me from you

But oh, my love, though our bodies may be parted
Though our skin may not touch skin
Look for me with the sun-bright sparrow
I will come on the breath of the wind
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thedismounted's avatar
Wow, this has a really well done feel and perspective. I'm listening to Culling of the Fold right now and the style matches the mood. I'm very happy with this, not everyone can capture Colin.